Biography Gay Outlaw

Gay Outlaw was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1959. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 1981 with a master's degree in French. Outlaw moved to Paris after graduation and studied at the Ecole de Cuisine Varenne.

After returning to the United States, she began photographing various objects and then creating her own objects to photograph. Her first sculptural works were made using food and later she began using solid materials.

Many of her works have been exhibited since the early 1990s. Gay Outlaw lives and works in San Francisco, California as of April 2008.